Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late William Graham ("Billy") Sumner, professor of political and social science at Yale, delivered a famed lecture about him. Professor Sumner's character was no down-&-outer, no object of public charity but rather the ordinary citizen who, in the mass, is called upon to care for Society's weak, incompetent, and shiftless. Declared Professor Sumner...
...next-to-last sector of his White House fight the Democratic nominee picked New England, territory where he is admittedly weak. By motor from Albany he drove through a corner of Vermont into Massachusetts. At Williamstown, the college students turned out to stare, too mildly.* At the crest of the Mohawk Trail the Governor's party stopped for hot dogs and coffee. Citizens of Ayer were reminded that he once taught Sunday school there...
...teeth of wind-whipped rains. One Scottish detachment had a bagpiper who mournfully skirled the subversive "Internationale." Miners from the boarded-up coal pits of Wales, shipwrights from the silent Tyneside, locked-out weavers from the Midlands arrived with some show of spunk and morale, but the weak & weary contingent from Henry Ford's plant at Dagenham (now working at a fraction of capacity) were a disgrace to their comrades. Exhorted to parade around Hyde Park, they squatted down as soon as they reached the greensward, exerted themselves no further than to join in chanting the British Hunger March. Chorus...
Coach Sasse, in his last trip to Harvard as the Cadets' coach, will undoubtedly put plenty of pressure on the Crimson secondary defense which proved so weak against Brown, and the Crimson players expect many passes...
After a short talk by the coaches on the weak points in the Harvard defensive and scoring machinery against Brown's well-regulated attacks, the first string went through a mild blocking and tackling practice. While B looked on, team A went through some new plays...